Just remember that these groups could also be divided into nearly 20 biomes. In order to give you a small taste of the huge diversity of the types of environments out there, we divide the world up into only nine biomes. This method of categorizing is one of convenience, and sometimes it just depends on why you're dividing the groups. Do those groups seem different enough to you to be in a separate biome?ĭon't worry, there is no right or wrong answer. With those cold temperatures, the plants and animals in temperate rainforests have to have adaptations to deal with cold weather. But temperate forests have a defined winter, with snow and temperatures below zero. Tropical rainforests are warm and don't experience a winter season. If we take a closer look at these temperate and rain forests, we see that they differ quite a bit in the amount of rain they get and in their temperatures. Tropical rain forests are too warm to get snow. Temperate forests get a winter season, often with snow. ![]() But again, by grouping organisms with similar adaptations together, we can see through some of the complexity and have a chance to better understand the living Earth. We already know of over 1.7 million species of organism, and there are likely over 17 million that exist. Making groups based on living organisms can be very complicated. Usually we group the different natural areas on Earth into categories based on plant and animal life and how they are able to survive in that part of the world. Depending on what characteristics we choose to describe an environment, the groupings we end up selecting may be different. We can divide our surroundings many ways-by how much water there is, by how warm it is, or by the types of plants or animals we find there. The natural world is more varied than we can imagine, and one way to try to make this variation easier to handle is to put different environment types into groups. One of the largest things that we try to categorize may be the types of environments found on Earth. We categorize all types of things, whether they are ideas or objects, and whether they are small or large. We have food groups, sexes, eye colors, ages, and movie genres, to name a few. To make sense of complexity, humans often need to categorize, or group, things. Last, but not the least, innovation… This is the one I have written the least about among the three, because for one thing, I believe that if you give incentives to innovate and have human capital able to support it, innovation will just follow.Here we see two different biomes-deserts on the left and grasslands on the right. Here’s a columnwhere I sketched those ideas. I would like to elaborate on Simsek’s motivations for writing his op-ed: For one thing, once the Fed starts raising its interest rates, the decade of easy money to EMs will be over, and foreign investors will have to be picky.They will choose countries that can continue to grow in this new world. That’s why Simsek, Mexico’s President and others are rushing to emphasize their zeal for reform, whether real or not…So is Simsek’s real? Probably yes. ![]() czar Babacan (but not President Erdogan and his chief econ. adviser Brave Cloud) are well aware that Turkey cannot grow more than 3-3.5 percent without structural reforms, which won’t be enough to absorb new entrants to the labor force and keep unemployment at bay- as he notes in his WSJ op-ed. However, he and Babacan should also know that they won’t be able to convince Erdogan on the need for structural reforms before the very important 2015 general elections- as Erdogan will try to get enough votes to change the Constitution. And if Babacan is a really a goner after the elections (if the AKP’s rules don’t change), I am not sure if Simsek will be able to push for reform himself- unless Erdogan Bulut suddenly realize that Turkey can not grow anymore without reforms. Therefore, a more realistic way of interpreting Simsek’s WSJ op-ed is to realize that he may be trying to buy time, as economist Murat Ucer underlined in the FT piece I hyperlinked in the column. ![]() I’ll quote him directly: “They understand Turkey’s macro story is stuck but also say they cannot do these reforms quite yet.
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